In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who with his father escaped from the labyrinth in Crete by making wings of feathers fastened with wax. Icarus plunged to his death when he flew too near the...Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

HMS Icarus was a British Intrepid Class destroyer of 1370 tons displacement launched in 1936. She was armed with four 4.7-inch guns; six smaller guns and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 36 knots and carried a complement of 145.Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/RI.HTM

(minor planet 1566) A member of the Apollo group of asteroids, discovered by Walter Baade in 1949. Its orbit carries it well within the orbit of Mercury, but not quite as close to the Sun as 2000 BD19 (0.09AU), 1995 CR (0.12 AU), or 3200 Phaethon (0.14 AU). Icarus ranks fifth on...Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/Icarus.html

Icarus was the son Daedalus. They went to Crete and were prevented from leaving by ship by king Minos. They escaped from the Minos labyrinth by means of wings made by his father Daedalus of feathers stitched to ribs of willow and the feathers held together by wax. In escaping Icarus showed off and flew too close to the sun, the wax holding the feat...Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/D1I.HTM

Icarus is an Apollo asteroid 1.5 km in diameter, discovered 1949. It orbits the Sun every 409 days at a distance of between 28 and 300 million km. It was the first asteroid discovered to approach closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury does. In 1968 it passed 6 million km away from the Earth.Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/GI.HTM

[crater] Icarus has a worn rim and a relatively wide inner wall. A small crater lies across the southern rim, and the side bulges outward slightly along the southwestern face. There is a disproportionately tall central peak located near the crater midpoint. This rise is unusual in that it is taller than the outer rim; most peaks are only ab...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(crater)

[journal] Icarus is a premier scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. Its longtime owner and publisher was Academic Press, which was then purchased by Elsevier. It is published under the auspices of the American Astronomical Society`s Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(journal)

In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus` father warns him first of c....Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

[experiment] ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) is a physics experiment aimed at studying neutrinos. It is located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The CNGS neutrinos are also studied by the OPERA experiment, therefore those experiments are also called CNGS1 (OPERA) and CNGS2 (ICARUS). The CNGS measuremen...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICARUS_(experiment)

[Greeeen song] ==Summary== `Icarus` is the third Greeeen song to be used in a Japanese TV commercial, the first two being `Yuki no Oto` and `Sakura Color`. It is also the first time that the group collaborated with the Calpis company to actually perform the song in the commercial. The single comes in three versions, a regular CD version, a ...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(Greeeen_song)

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